** Rioting and death in Sudan after news of the Rebel Leader’s death **
VIDEO OF THIS DEVASTATING NEWS HERE
Today John Garang is dead!
More than a million Sudanese greeted John Garang in Khartoum’s Green Square on July 8th. Garang was considered a hero for peace by many of the suffering Sudanese people.
Reports at dawn on Monday indicate that New Sudan’s First Vice President John Garang died when a Ugandan military helicopter he was travelling in crashed on Saturday night.
Ugandan authorities lost contact with the helicopter carrying him to Juba, after a weekend meeting with President Yoweri Museveni.
The Ugandan military last night could only say that they had located a signal of the presidential helicopter carrying Colonel Garang after it lost contact in bad weather, at a spot on the border between Uganda and Sudan. However, they were yet to reach the site.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Vice President Garang on her trip to Sudan on July 21, 2005.
The President confirmed today (Monday) that John Garang died in the helicopter crash:
In a statement quoted by state television, it said Garang, six of his companions and a crew of seven had died.
“The march of peace will continue toward its goal and his death will only make us stronger and more determined to complete the march which he began and his companions began,” it added.
The Sudan News Wires have yet to announce that he has died just as the video has stated above (as of 3:00 AM EST). I stand corrected. It has just been announced in Sudan! (3:00 AM EST)
This is shocking news that may have dire consequences:
Garang’s absence would be a heavy blow to the January peace deal that ended a 21-year civil war between the mostly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south in which some 2 million people died.
For the latest on the ‘New’ Sudan Crisis go to this post.
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